Re: stupidity and disaster
My suggestion:
Get a rescue disk (like the one you used to originally install debian).
If you dont have one handy, use another computer to download an image
from somewhere like www.debian.org and make one, following the instructions.
Boot up with the rescue disk. Dont activate a swap, partition or format
anything. (he he, but you prolly know that). Look for the option that
lets you mount a partition. Mount the partition that bash lives on and
undo what you did. Remove the rescue disk and reboot.
I dont know why what you did did not work, but I am sure we will slap
our foreheads and say, "no wonder" when one of the gurus explains it to
us.
Mike
On Sat, Jul 11, 1998 at 03:56:10PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> Hello ..
>
> I seem to have done something very stupid. If anyone can tell me what
> exactly it was that I did wrong, or better still, help me recover what
> I'm very afraid might be a hopelessly trashed filesystem, I'd be very
> grateful.
>
> The system is Debian 1.3, kernel version 2.0.30
>
> I wanted to upgrade from bash-2.0 to bash-2.02 (to solve a problem
> with getting Netscape 4.05 and the Real Audio Player to work
> together). I downloaded bash-2.02 from the GNU archive and installed
> it in /usr/local. The binary in /usr/local/bin . The next step must
> have been where I committed my stupidity .... I renamed /bin/bash to
> /bin/bash-2.0 and make a symbolic link from /usr/local/bash-2.02 to
> /bin/bash (hoping that this would just drop the new bash in in place
> of the old) .
>
> Everything seemed fine; my problem was solved; I was happy.
>
> When I went to boot again today, I was not happy. Thr boot proceeded
> normally until:
>
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
> INIT: version 2.71 booting
> INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/boot"
> INIT: entering runlevel: 2
> INIT: cannot execute "etc/init.d/rc"
>
> Debian GNU Linux 1.3 (none) tty1
> (none) login root: root
> Password:
> Jul 11 15:03:20 login[8]: unable to change tty `dev/tty1' for user `root'
> Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: Bad file number
>
> Trying to shutdown gracefully with Ctl-Alt-Delete gives:
>
> INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6
> INIT: Sending processess the TERM signal
> INIT: cannot execute "/etc/init.d/rc"
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Ctl-D for normal startup):
> /bin/bash: No such file or directory
> /bin/sh: No such file or directory
>
> The root password seems to be recognized, but it seems that I've left
> the system with no way to find a shell.
>
> Have I destroyed this nice thing totally? I'd be very grateful indeed
> for any help or advice ....
>
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